6 Ways to Pick Peppers for Dinner

We love bell peppers. Served raw, they're a tangy and low-calorie snack and a great addition to any salad. When cooked, their natural sweetness is highlighted. We've picked a pack of pepper recipes that are both delicious and nutritious!

Chicken Fajita Stuffed Peppers: Who says you have to serve fajitas in a flour tortilla? Instead of serving peppers in the fajitas, I serve fajitas in a roasted pepper!

Stuffed Bell Peppers: This stuffed bell pepper recipe is really delicious! You can use red bell peppers if you like that flavor better. It incorporates your protein, starch, and veggies in one neat package! Brown rice is used for an added nutritional punch.

Love the orange and red ones. Yellow is also nice, but green ones don't agree with my insides. Love the orange/red ones raw - when cutting up for a salad, I end up eating most of the pieces before the salad is made. Big pieces of raw bell pepper make nice crunchies on the side for any meal. Also they make nice additions to sandwiches when raw or cooked. Or as the sandwich filling all by themselves, in good bread or rolls or pita bread, usually with vegenaise (eggless mayo) or sometimes cream cheese. Since I can't eat tomatoes very often, I use bell peppers instead in such concoctions. I also freeze pieces for cooking and tossing into blended drinks (Vitamix type whole veg/fruit juices). I make the pieces the right size for the blender and when cooking, just let them defrost enough to cut into smaller pieces (for example, to toss into pasta or rice or millet or just to add to other veggies).
- 2/7/2016 10:27:49 PM

This sounds great- I have a freezer drawer filled with sliced & chopped pepppers from last summer's harvest. The recipes on the 6 pepper recipes blog should help me create some new meals.
- 2/26/2015 6:01:51 AM

They're super for freezing too! I chop up and put in air-tight jars with plastic lids and they're great using in eggs, fajitas, etc. Just throw in frozen. It helps when you can grow them in your garden like I do. Tip: If you don't put them in air-tight containers when freezing, all of your other freezer items will take on a green pepper flavor. No joke! Yep, green pepper flavor ice cream! = (
- 11/1/2013 1:57:06 PM

I love peppers - especially the orange, red, and yellow ones. Good tip is that for fresh eating (relish trays) pick peppers that have three lopes on the bottom - use the four lopes ones for baking, sauteing, etc.
- 5/21/2013 11:07:21 AM

I didn't like them growing up but I do now, especially red, orange, and banana peppers, sweet or hot. I like them cooked in a lot of things, especially when they're still a little crunchy. Growing peppers in Texas is super easy.
- 4/12/2013 8:12:10 AM

thanks for posting these. i just bought some red, orange, yellow, green and purple bell pepper plants yesterday to plant in our garden. i can hardly wait to see how the purple one's will taste.
- 4/10/2013 10:42:18 AM

I love raw bell peppers. They're great with a sandwich, in a salad, or whatever. I haven't made stuffed bell peppers in a while, but want to. They're delicious, and can be filled with just about anything. One thing I do when peppers are beginning to go bad. I cut them up in my food processor and freeze them flat in a freezer bag. Then when I'm cooking and need some, I just break off a piece and add it. I also do this with onions and celery. Great way not to have veggies go to waste.
- 4/10/2013 10:13:31 AM

I love peppers! My mother makes the best stuffed peppers! I've tried to make mine the same way but they never come out like hers. I tried the first recipe shown here. It was OK, but it certainly didn't look as good as the picture.
- 4/10/2013 9:09:55 AM

YUM!!! Lots of new ideas... I only know how to make the one where it is meat and rice and you put it in a pepper with a tomato sauce and cook it... You throw the peppers out... They are just to hold the meat/rice mixture while it cooks.. Thank you!
- 4/9/2013 8:59:24 PM

One of my favorite ingredients. Raw as strips to dip or added to sandwiches, in stir fry, in home made pasta sauces, with onions in salads or lightly sauted and served with any meat or beans or chicken, in my remake of the Country Fair Sausage Sandwich, in my all time favorite - Stuffed peppers. I grow them or buy at Farmers' Market, or splurge in the grocery store. Such a great source of Vitamin C and all things healthy.
- 8/4/2012 3:17:28 PM

There's nothing sooo scrumptious as fresh sliced raw peppers from the garden!! I'll eat peppers just about any way I can get 'em, and used to love stuffing them with Spanish Rice, plus, they'll go just about anywhere onions, chives, shallots, and garlic will go, i.e. chopped up into any meal that's edible- saving deserts. LOL!! Thanks for sharing!!
- 8/4/2012 1:16:09 PM

I grow one sweet bell pepper each summer. I freeze them as they mature. At the end of summer, I pick all off the plant before it freezes. Last year I picked 40 in various degrees of ripening from the one plant. I gave frozen peppers away to family/friends. I still don't know why there were so many more this one year.
- 8/4/2012 7:55:01 AM

I could and do eat them both ways. The place I eat lunch had them all cut up together raw, so I get a large spoonful of them. I also like stuffed peppers without the meat; or with chicken or turkey. Moe's have them cooked and I add them everytime. Now that's eating!
- 8/4/2012 1:55:12 AM

They are my favourite vegetable apart from aubergines onions and garlic!!! I hope everybody knows they freeze very well, no blanching required and can be de-seeded and frozen whole, to stuff later
- 8/4/2012 1:32:21 AM

Thank goodness this appeared today! We are being "attacked" by a bumper crop of peppers this year. Now I have some new recipes to try with them. Thanks, Spark People- you always come through just when I need you!
- 8/3/2012 7:12:44 PM

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